Inspired by artist and architect Jackson Burnside’s challenge that “writers have to bring people back around the fire to hear stories” and writer Keisha Ellis, the BWSI has designed Writers in the Round, a bringing together of writers and the larger community in a circle around the proverbial fire. Several writers will be sharing words of poetry, prose and something in between seated amongst the a...

Entering its fourth year, the summer workshop for writers under the Bahamas Writers Summer Institute (BWSI) is gearing up for its intense three-week focus on writing workshops, seminars, lectures and readings this coming July 2012.

Applications are still being accepted. The cost of this 3-week intensive works...

Bahamian writer, performer, educator and Gaulin Project founder Helen Klonaris continues her work in the development of the writing community today with the one-day retreat, "Remembering Ourselves: Healing Our Colonial Legacy".
Taking place at the Cancer Society of The Bahamas' Cancer Caring Centre 10 a.m.-5 p.m., the retreat is part of The Gaulin Project's Beloved Community Series and the Bahamas...

In 1682 John Sheffield, an English soldier, nobleman, adventurer, politician and poet, wrote a fairly long poem entitled "Essay on Poetry". Centuries later, the opening lines of that work used to be carried frequently by Time Magazine as a filler. It goes like this: "Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
Paul Anthony White was many things, but ab...

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